5/12/2023 0 Comments Butter by Elaine Khosrova![]() ![]() Khosrova writes that butter is believed to hark back to the neolithic era. American food trends are hopelessly reminiscent of Newton's third law, says David Katz, founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Centre: "For every boneheaded action, there's an opposite and equally boneheaded reaction." A long historyīut before we get to all that, it helps to go back to the beginning. We alternately demonise and idealise individual ingredients - not just butter but also sugar, caffeine, red wine and supposed miracle foods - and in doing so, we miss the big picture.Įven now, at butter's supposed moment of glory, many nutritional scientists worry that the pendulum may be swinging too far in its direction. People are putting butter in their coffee, and the demand for "real food" is pervasive enough that in 2015, McDonald's swapped out margarine for butter in its Egg McMuffin.īutter's story is a very American story, because the arc of its vilification and subsequent redemption is a parable for how we get food wrong time and again. In recent years, countless headlines have declared butter "back", amid some science suggesting we may have overrated its health dangers. The release of Khosrova's book is timely. ![]()
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